A man was arrested overnight for vandalising the personal residence of US Vice President JD Vance in the Midwestern state of Ohio, officials said Monday.
"As far as I can tell, a crazy person tried to break in by hammering the windows," Vance said in a post on X. "We weren't even home as we had returned already to DC."
In a statement, the US Secret Service said the man, who was not identified, was arrested for "causing property damage, including breaking windows" at Vance´s Cincinnati home.
"The man was physically detained by Secret Service agents assigned to the Vice President´s home," it said.
"The residence was unoccupied at the time of the incident, and the Vice President and his family were not in Ohio."
It was the latest episode of political violence directed at a US elected official. Last June, a senior Democratic state assemblywoman from Minnesota and her husband were shot dead by a gunman in what authorities said was a politically motivated murder.
Last April, a man set fire to the house of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro while the governor and his family were asleep at the residence.
That attack bore similarities to the October 2022 home invasion of the San Francisco residence of Nancy Pelosi, then the Democratic speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, when a man beat her husband with a hammer.
